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Constant Wonder - Labor Day 2021

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Topic: How Beef Changed America

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WPCA-LP, KUHF, and WYAP

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Our President's Day special puts some focus on a woman who performed some of the functions of President of the United States. We'll learn about Edi...

Bought by KVMR, RadioStPete Florida, and WHCP-LP Cambridge

Whose Monkey Chant Is It Anyway?

From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That

The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?

Salem Bewitched

From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds

Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky

To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix

Soli Deo Gloria

From: Kate O'Connell

Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts

An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

Chinese Ensembles (10 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

About 2,500 years ago, the body of a Chinese nobleman was placed in a tomb with items he cherished most: furnishings, bronze vessels, weapons and s...

Bought by KBYI

Saving the Last Ocean

From: Generation Anthropocene

We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...

The Golden Age of Black Baseball (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Solving the Klezmer Mystery (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials

After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

King Stories: (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

From: Dorothy Green Alcorn

Caption: King Poster, Credit: Nicolene DuToit

King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more

The Black Cowboys of the Illinois Savannah

From: Carla Sanders

On fifty-two square miles of rural land in Kankakee County Illinois there is a unique sand savannah sandwiched between corn and soybean fields wher...

Yung Yiddish

From: Israel Story

In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...

The Last of the Iron Lungs

From: Julia Scott

Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott

Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more

This Week in Texas Music History: Gus Johnson

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the third week of November (11/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented drummer whose career was almost dera...

This Week in Texas Music History: Mary Martin

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the second week of December (12/11): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented Texan who could sing, dance and mag...

This Week In Texas Music History: Don Robey

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...

This Week in Texas Music History: Dean Beard

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...